Mike's Master Classes

Counterpoint Concepts

Sid Jacobs·
5.0 (3 reviews)·ADVANCED·Chord Voicings·19 lessons
$14.95
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In this 2006 masterclass, you’ll learn how to start using counterpoint in your playing. Sid Jacobs shares insights and tips he has discovered from studying the music of Bach, Bird and Bill Evans. You’ll see how seemingly simple ideas like embellishing guide tones can develop into two-part playing that evokes both classical music and jazz sensibilities. Sid uses examples of tunes including "Yesterday", "Darn That Dream", "Autumn Leaves", "All The Things You Are" and "You Stepped Out of A Dream" to show how the same concepts work on different chord progressions. Along with 18 pages of notated examples, you will have a lot of material to dig into and incorporate into your playing immediately. This class will help jazz guitarists looking into spicing up their solo guitar arrangements as well as create more sophisticated textures for duo and trio playing situations. Get out from playing chord-melody and start using a melody-chord approach to arranging and improvising. With the newly segmented videos, you’ll be able to locate specific examples easier for repeated study and analysis when needed.
  • 18 Pages of PDF materials in standard notation and TAB.
  • Counterpoint Concepts Examples and Exercises
  • “You Stepped Out of A Dream” – arranged for guitar by Sid Jacobs
Full video is 1 hour 10 mins.

Course Content

Lessons

  • Adding Approaches and The Essence of Bebop and Bach175
  • All The Things You Are - Connecting 3rds and 7ths245
  • Autumn Leaves meets Bach111
  • Breaking up chords for major, dominant and minor400
  • Chelsea Bridge and Jimmy Wyble Story311
  • Closing Thoughts223
  • Counterpoint Concepts4200
  • Example on Yesterdays123
  • How to learn an arrangement - Major Minor and Dominant Ideas62
  • How to start learning all this - a melody-chord approach291
  • Introduction and Opening Performance of Infant Eyes390
  • Performance of Darn That Dream, Dreamsville and You Stepped Out of A Dream323
  • Scales into cluster chord voicings140
  • Stealing from Bach215
  • Stealing from Bill274
  • The 3 Bs - Bach Bird and Bill - Hearing The II-V-I278
  • The Importance of the 3rd - All The Things You Are Example243
  • They were all improvising258
  • What I learned from Bill Evans - Melodic Clusters162

Reviews & Ratings

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Shawn Loudermilk
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12/27/2018

"Amazing Lessons"

Sid Jacobs is a Treasury of Fretboard Insight and Nuance.. made my whole new year with inspiration and new found possibilities, Thank You

Ozeias Jesus
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12/31/2013

Excellent, Sid is a great teacher explains all the topics very clearly, this stuff is helping me a lot in developing this language. Many thanks Mike and Sid by this contribution.

Dave Mosick
4/16/2009

Sid's explanations and demonstrations are wonderfully clear and enlightening. He is a truly gifted teacher and player. I would love to see more of him on Mikes Masterclasses<br />

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About the instructor

Sid Jacobs →
Long-time jazz master Sid Jacobs is in a class few have achieved, yet always approaching tunes from a beginner's mind-set. With an astounding understanding of the guitar, his classes are loaded with powerful yet useful nuggets. Some of the great jazz artists with whom Sid has performed include Harold Land, Eddie Harris, Buddy Montgomery, Joe Diorio, Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings and Javon Jackson.